Preference-aligned fertility management: Assessing the feasibility of a newly proposed measure of contraceptive autonomy among married adolescent girls in Kaduna and Nasarawa states, Nigeria

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This poster presentation, shared at the Society for Family Planning (SFP) meeting in 2023 showcased results from field-testing of preference-aligned fertility management (PFM), a measure newly proposed by Holt et al.1 which is defined as concordance between current self-reported desire to use contraception and current contraceptive use. We fielded a simplified version of the measure, which assessed concordance between desired and actual use of any contraceptive method.